Re: PSYCHE Vol 16 #1 ... essay

2010-06-14 Thread Colin Hales
Bruno Marchal wrote: Colin, I think we have always agreed on this conclusion. We may differ on the premises. It just happen that I am using a special hypothesis, which is very common, but not so well understood, and which is the digital mechanist hypothesis. I think things are more subtle

Re: PSYCHE Vol 16 #1 ... essay

2010-06-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Jun 2010, at 09:09, Colin Hales wrote: Bruno Marchal wrote: Colin, I think we have always agreed on this conclusion. We may differ on the premises. It just happen that I am using a special hypothesis, which is very common, but not so well understood, and which is the digital

Re: PSYCHE Vol 16 #1 ... essay

2010-06-14 Thread Jason Resch
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:08 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: You have added the UTM and its variants to the pile. Any of these could be just as right as you think COMP is. I have no idea about the truth status of Digital Mechanism, except nothing in nature suggest it to be

Re: PSYCHE Vol 16 #1 ... essay

2010-06-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Jason, On 14 Jun 2010, at 15:55, Jason Resch wrote: On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:08 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: You have added the UTM and its variants to the pile. Any of these could be just as right as you think COMP is. I have no idea about the truth status of

Re: PSYCHE Vol 16 #1 ... essay

2010-06-12 Thread Colin Hales
Bruno Marchal wrote: Thanks for the link Colin. I will read it after the exams period. In some trivial sense I think I, and the Lobian machine, agrees with your conclusion, but less trivially, we may disagree. We don't have to change the boundaries of science, just be more open to facts,

Re: PSYCHE Vol 16 #1 ... essay

2010-06-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
Colin, I think we have always agreed on this conclusion. We may differ on the premises. It just happen that I am using a special hypothesis, which is very common, but not so well understood, and which is the digital mechanist hypothesis. Then the discourse of the universal machine, which

PSYCHE Vol 16 #1 ... essay

2010-06-11 Thread Colin Hales
Recently there was a student essay contest run by the ASSC (Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness) The five winners are published in the ASSC journal PSYCHE. One of them was mine. They have finally got around to publishing them. Hales C. 2010. The scientific evidence of qualia